A major survey in Israel has revealed that a series of education reforms and a huge expansion in private colleges has failed to broaden access to higher education, reports Haaretz. A report published by the Adva Center says that while 25 percent of high-school graduates attend college, affluent Jewish high-school students are twice as likely as their poor Jewish and Arab peers to enter college. The figures are not significantly different from a decade earlier. The report states that an effort in the 1990s to expand private colleges to enable more young people from underprivileged areas to earn degrees did not achieve its goal. While student numbers exploded due to the new colleges, from 76,000 in 1990 to 237,000 in 2010, the change did not make higher education more accessible to Jews or Arabs from less advantaged communities. The report is based on a survey of 112,000 students whom the center began tracking in 2001.